Boston College Introduction

　　Founded in 1863, Boston College is a Jesuit, Catholic university located six miles from downtown Boston with an enrollment of 9,484 full-time undergraduates and 5,250 graduate and professional students. Ranked 35 among national universities, Boston College has 888 full-time and 1,281 FTE faculty, 2,711 non-faculty employees, an operating budget of $1.4 billion, and an endowment in excess of $3.5 billion.

　　Job Description

　　Temporary Office Pool: Fiscal Assistant

　　Responsible for daily accounting, reconciliation, reports and assistance with analysis processing that support multi-department operations: Dining Services, Catering, and Bureau of Conferences. Creating and maintaining various electronic financial spreadsheets, workbooks and process used in the accounting cycle. Assist in executing essential procedures and processes for daily cash accounting, debit card accounting, inventory entries, accounts payable, and communication regarding service with vendors and customers.

　　Performs People-Soft downloads and input to support reconciliation activities

　　Assists in daily reconciliations for the multiple assigned department accounts

　　Creates and posts journal entries via uploads from spreadsheets or manually ie. Revenue

　　Creates and maintains macros for download of reports to Excel for analysis.

　　Alters and maintains file structure multiple and diverse spreadsheets of the Operating Report template for creation of monthly accounting team worksheets.

　　Extract external receivable data from general ledger; summarize data and assist in the collection of outstanding receivables.

　　Produces reports from databases in support of various transaction activity and inquiry.

　　Inputs weekly inventory for cost centers, and participates in inventory analysis with unit management.

　　Assists in data entry required to generate various financial reports.

　　Performs other clerical duties as required

　　Assists in the design and sequencing of “inventory locations” in menu management software as required.

　　Requirements

　　Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting or an equivalent is preferred. Combination of education and experience equating to a Bachelor’s may satisfy this requirement.

　　Three years of experience with accounting, preferably with exposure to debit balance transactions.

　　Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment; excellent verbal and written communication skills. Strong human relation and customer service skills. Must be excellent with computers and accounting software applications, especially Excel, Word and PeopleSoft. Keen ability to utilize multiple systems for process management specific to varying work areas. Experience with general ledger inquiry and transaction processing is a must.

　　Hourly salary: $22.50 (28 hours week)

　　Closing Statement

　　Boston College offers a broad and competitive range of benefits depending on your job classification eligibility:

　　Tuition remission for Employees

　　Tuition remission for Spouses and Children who meet eligibility requirements

　　Generous Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

　　Low-Cost Life Insurance

　　Eligibility for both University-Funded 401k and Employer-Sponsored 403b Retirement Plans

　　Paid Holidays Annually

　　Generous Sick and Vacation Pay

　　Additional benefits can be found on https://www.bc.edu/employeehandbook

　　Boston College conducts pre-employment background checks as part of the hiring process.

　　Boston College is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. In concert with our Jesuit, Catholic mission, Boston College is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty and staff committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment and strongly encourages applications for women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and covered veterans. To learn more about how BC supports diversity and inclusion throughout the university please visit the Office for Institutional Diversity at https://www.bc.edu/diversity .

　　Boston College's Notice of Nondiscrimination can be viewed at https://www.bc.edu/nondiscrimination .